Quel triste élève de la Grè
Pourrait, en voyant sa beauté,
Préférer les lis de Lucrèce,
Et les paleurs de la sagesse,
Aux roses de la volupté?

Translation: What gloomy student of old Greece, As on her charms his gaze reposes, Would choose the lilies of Lucrece, Or virtue's garland colourless, In place of passion's roses? | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 192.